Biggest milestone yet!

Yesterday I managed to run 2 miles straight!!!!!

HUGE!!

Now when I look back at the last post I was super excited that I could do 10 minutes straight! Look waht a difference a month can make!

As for the gap in posting.... A confession. I am flakey. Seriously! I forgot how I set up this account and it's taken me a while to get logged back on. Told you - flakey!

But I'm back now! And this is the Week 8 Day 2 screen shot.

Now being the bad blogger that I am - of course I forgot to take a photo of myself after this momentous run. And the screen shot of the page after I had run it! I actually skipped Week 8 Day 1 because I was just so psyched to run the 2 miles. Day 1 was a 28 minute run and I was pretty sure that I could make it to the 30 minute mark OK.

The little motivational quote for this run was that I was only 1 training away from being a 5k runner! Well..... not so much. If you even have a little bit of 3rd grade math you can figure out that I am running a 15 minute mile. So at that pace it will take me 45 minutes of running to get to the 3 mile marker. I think after I finish the program (tomorrow if all things go well) then I will go back and start at about week 4 to get my pace up.

Tomorrow is my weigh in at my Weight Watchers meeting so I am really excited to see how I did. Stay tuned.....

Hugs
Megan

Running for 10 minutes straight...

...or maybe we could title this - "Things I never imagined I would do"!

This morning was week 6 day 1 - and that was 5 minute warm up, run 10, walk 5, run 10 and then cool down for 5. It was hard. Really hard. But I managed to do it with holding onto the bars for about 15 seconds. I can't tell you how proud I am of myself!

I've had a crappy food week though. Have I mentioned that gluten does not agree with my body? Did I also mention that sometimes I just give in to the cravings - and deal with the terrible bloating and pain? That's what I decided to do this week - and so I had a gain of 2.8 lbs. I was expecting that though, so it wasn't really that terrible.

I've just dropped the hubs at the airport. He will be back in Oz for 2 weeks. I'm sure I don't have to tell you how hard this will be for my food. I've already had a horrid day - and Chinese for dinner tonight  I didn't overdo it - but I'm sure that Thai chicken curry is in no way WW friendly! And there's leftovers...

I thought that I would also talk about this little gadget that has kept me both motivated and entertained for the past 10 weeks.

It's my active link. (well - to be totally honest this is a photo that I found on the internet and stole. My photos just don't turn out good enough to show you the lights!)

This thing has just gotten me to move in ways that I just never thought that I would. Walking up and down the stairs to pee comes to mind. As does squats as I unload the dishwasher. I'm telling you that getting those lights to start flashing at the end of the day is my greatest motivation to get me moving.

You can find out about them on the Active Link page, or at your meetings. I must say that I was the one in the meeting room rolling her eyes when they first told us about them. I seriously saw this as a bit of a gimmick. But once those first 8 days Assessment is done and I could really get a good look at my daily activity - it was game on!

This was today's activity. You can see when I ran - and then not too much for the rest of the day. And yet I still managed to rack up an impressive 7 points. Love it!

Let me know how your Active Link is getting you motivated!

Hugs
Megan